Sweetman Podcast: Episode 51 – David Long

David Long is a composer and musician known for his work with The Mutton Birds and most recently TEETH – a band the features two members of The Phoenix Foundation and legendary Wellington drummer Ant Donaldson. Long has played in many experimental groups too – The Labcoats, Tin Syndrome, Six Volts – including backing The Front Lawn….he’s also worked as a film composer for TV, documentary and feature films. He’s also been the producer behind fantastic albums from the likes of Dave Dobbyn, Fur Patrol and Leila Adu…

I first met David Long outside a Don McGlashan solo gig. I can’t remember our
conversation exactly but I enjoyed it. And since then – some 15+ years ago, I’ve bumped into David at a few industry events and other gigs. I’ve been a fan of his music and I’ve always enjoyed a chat about music in general – so for this episode of the podcast we got to do a bit of both; the focus being Long’s life and career and through that we got to gasbag about Brian Eno and Talking Heads, post-punk and jazz.

This was the first time I had any sort of ‘formal’ chat with Long, though to call a podcast formal is not quite right. We sat down over a couple of cups of tea and talked about music. Hardly an arduous task.

That provides the segue – just – for me to mention our new sponsor. The T Leafhas very generously provided a range of herbal teas and infusions for me. And for podcast guests. Very excited about that. My thanks to The T Leaf. And to our usual sponsors…

You’ve found this via the link on Facebook or Twitter and/or from the Off The Tracks website – it’s hosted at Soundcloud and to receive the episodes before you even get to

Day-time visitors to the den get to have coffee thanks to L’affare or, later in the day, they can have a beer from the wonderful Yeastie Boys. My thanks as always to these great sponsors.. And welcome aboard, and again thanks kindly to The T Leaf.